Objective

To ascertain the total expenses that the Department of Motor Vehicles (Department) incurred in administering the Motor Vehicle Financial Security Act and the Motor Vehicle Safety Responsibility Act (collectively, Acts) for the four State Fiscal Years ended March 31, 2018.

About the Program

The Acts help ensure that the operators of motor vehicles driven in New York State possess adequate insurance coverage, or are financially secure, to compensate those persons they might injure or whose property they might damage as a result of an accident. According to Vehicle and Traffic Law, the Department is responsible for tracking its expenses of administering the Acts, and assessing these expenses on insurance carriers that issue policies or contracts of automotive bodily injury insurance.

We performed certain procedures, which were agreed to by the Department, to ascertain the expenses it incurred in administering the Acts for the four State Fiscal Years ended March 31, 2018. On average, the Department incurred $20.4 million in expenses to administer the Acts for each of the four State Fiscal Years.